IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Sharondale
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 83KY195 Sharondale-OSD
  • User Pedon ID: 83KY195 Sharondale-OSD
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 83KY195 Sharondale-OSD
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 83P0642
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 52879
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location In Web Soil Survey
  • AOI is roughly a square mile and pedon is marked in the center.
  • Location in SoilWeb
  • Location in Google Maps
  • Std. Latitude: 37.4708333
  • Std. Longitude: -82.4113889
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Modal pedon of Sharondale channery fine sandy loam, in Pike County in an area of KsF—Kimper-Sharondale-Muskingum complex, 30 to 80 percent slopes, very stony; about 5.7 miles east of Zebulon, KY, and about 1000 yards from the confluence of Opossum Branch and Raccoon Creek; on USGS Millard Topographic Quadrangle; on Soil Survey Atlas Map Sheet #10.
  • Map Unit: KsF—Kimper-Sharondale-Muskingum complex, 30 to 80 percent slopes, very stony
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY195—Pike
  • MLRA: 125—Cumberland Plateau and Mountains
  • Regional Office: 6—Morgantown, WV
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-LON—London, Kentucky
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY195—Pike County, Kentucky
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37082-E5—Broad Bottom, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: John Kelley & M. Horvath
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, active, mesic Typic Hapludolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Sharondale (flagged as OSD)
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/19/2009
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Sharondale
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1983
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy colluvium derived from sandstone and siltstone and/or shale
  • Landscape: mountains
  • Landform: mountain slope
  • Geomorphic Component Mountains: mountainflank
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: indurated sandstone, unspecified at 214cm
  • Geology: Hyden Formation formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1983 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hardwoods
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    LITU

    Liriodendron tulipifera

    tuliptree

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

    indurated

    214 - 239

    - 25 -

    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—45

    45—188

    —45—

    —143—
    Setting and Climate
    Slope Slope Length USLE Upslope Length Elev. Corr. Elev Aspect MAP REAP FFD MAAT MSAT MWAT MAST MSST MWST MFFP PE Index Climate Station ID Climate Station Name Climate Station Type
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    75

    —

    —

    493.7

    —

    90

    1132

    —

    188

    14.5

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    156353

    PIKEVILLE

    SA COOP
    A—0 to 32 centimeters (0.0 to 12.6 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1), dark brown (10YR 3/3), dry; channery fine sandy loam; moderate medium granular structure; very friable; 4.0 fine and medium roots; 5 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 75-120-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 2-40-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 83P03159; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    AB—32 to 45 centimeters (12.6 to 17.7 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), brown (10YR 4/3), dry; channery loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 4.0 fine and medium roots; 20 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 2-40-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 83P03160; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw1—45 to 85 centimeters (17.7 to 33.5 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), dry; very channery loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 fine to coarse roots; 10 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 75-120-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 25 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 2-40-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 83P03161; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw2—85 to 123 centimeters (33.5 to 48.4 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), dry; extremely flaggy sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky parts to moderate medium granular structure; very friable; 3.0 fine to coarse roots; 5 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 2-4-5 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 28 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 75-300-380 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 47 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 5-40-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 83P03162; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw3—123 to 155 centimeters (48.4 to 61.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), dry; very flaggy fine sandy loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 fine to coarse roots; 6 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 2-4-5 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 9 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 75-300-380 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 5-40-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 83P03163; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    BC—155 to 188 centimeters (61.0 to 74.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) very flaggy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 2 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 2-4-5 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 13 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 75-300-380 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 5-40-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 93P03164; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    C—188 to 214 centimeters (74.0 to 84.3 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), dry; very flaggy loam; massive; firm; 2 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 2-4-5 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 17 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 75-300-380 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 36 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 2-40-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 93P03165; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    R—214 to 239 centimeters (84.3 to 94.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) unweathered bedrock; fragments.; observed in pit, small